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Walking with GiantsLeadership & Success

ACCOUNTABILITY

Accepting responsibilities for your actions

Example: You are held accountable for your grades.

CARINGfeeling and exhibiting concern and empathy for others

Example: Because Jonathan is caring, he helped Janae with her written practice so she wouldn’t have to do it for homework.

CITIZENSHIP

Your behavior and actions; not just following the rights and behaviors laid down by the law, it also means adhering to the social and moral behavior expected of a citizen

A good citizen is someone who:

• cares about the feelings and rights of others• shows concern for the safety and well-being of others• uses their skills to make a better community• stays informed about issues and voices their opinion• votes• conserves resources and follows the 3 Rs-- reduce, reuse and recycles

What does success look like?

LeadershipLeadership

Leaders are found everywhere– Business– Politics– Entertainment– Military– Science – Sports– Mathematics

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Leaders are not just sports heroes, they are much more. Give me some examples of leaders we know now.

What Is a Good Leader?What Is a Good Leader?

A Train Conductor– Never actually plays an instrument– Trusts each musician to play his/her part

well– Conductor’s score shows

everything (is complex)• The musicians’ score only

shows their individual parts

A leader directs the whole while inspiring

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What Defines a Good What Defines a Good Leader?Leader?

Excellent leaders have certain characteristics

– Self-Awareness– Conviction– Courage– Ability to Listen– Creativity– Curiosity– Ability to Reflect


Being a Leader, a Hero

What examples did Kid President show that exemplified a leader?

Self AwarenessSelf Awareness

• Knowing your own strengths and limitations

• Understanding your own emotions

• Understanding the impact of your behavior on others

Know Thyself…..Socrates


Self Awareness (cont.)Self Awareness (cont.)

Questions to Ask and Answer…

•Who am I right now?•Do I really want to lead?

•What do I want?•Am I willing to make the sacrifices leaders must make?

People of the world don't look at themselves, and so they blame one another…. Mevlana Rumi, author


ConvictionConviction• Personal conviction is what you (as a person)

strongly believe. • Leaders have

– developed beliefs– communicated those beliefs to their team– taken action based on those beliefs.

Beliefs are not always easy to come by or right in front of one's face. The path is often lonely, arduous, even painful….but an intellectually honest leader leads from a place where true beliefs live….Rudy Guiliani (Mayor, New York City during 9/11)


CourageCourage

• Great leaders ask themselves:– Do I have the courage to lead

despite the resistance?

– Do I have the courage to have my beliefs questioned?

• Leaders need to have courage to act on their convictions because great leaders often face resistance to change


Courage (cont.)Courage (cont.)

My point of view has always been that if I have an opinion, and people can’t argue me out of it…then I must be right. I have to have the strength of conviction and the courage to stick to it. … Howard Lester, Chairman & CEO, Williams- Sonoma


Ability to ListenAbility to Listen• Leaders are not just “good talkers”• Great leaders are those who can

– stop talking– start listening

• Leaders need to listen so that they can hear what– the outside world is saying

– team members are saying


Ability to Listen (cont.) Ability to Listen (cont.)

Leaders who don’t listen will not lead in the long run…Jerry Hultin, former Navy Under

Secretary and current President of Polytechnic University (Brooklyn, NY).


CreativityCreativity• Ability to make something new rather than

imitate or copy something else.

• Creativity is used on– products– ideas – actions

Innovation [creativity] distinguishes between a leader and a follower….Steve Jobs, Founder

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Creativity (cont.)Creativity (cont.)

A Soldier’s Story• US Troops entered the Iraqi city of

Najaf• Met an enraged mob• Troops had been trained to fire

warning shots when a mob stirs.

• Lt. Col. Chris Hughes ordered his men to point weapons to the ground• Crowd went silent• Troops had not learned this in training


CuriosityCuriosity• Great leaders are curious• Great leaders ask questions• Great leaders try new things – just to see what

happens • Leaders do not have all the answers

– they ask questions and educate themselves so they can educate

others

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths …Walt DisneyUNT in partnership with TEA, Copyright © All rights reserved 14

Ability to ReflectAbility to Reflect

• Don’t just learn by doing

• Learn by doing and then thinking about it– See what can be learned– What went right; what went wrong

• “Aha” moments only come with reflection

• Reflection brings about conviction


Ability to Reflect (cont.)Ability to Reflect (cont.)

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will

come even more effective action … Peter Drucker, writer and consultant


Who are some great leaders?Who are some great leaders?

• President Obama

• Abraham Lincoln

• Rosa Parks

• Martin Luther King

What makes them leaders or heros?


Student WorksheetStudent Worksheet_________________ is the ability to know and understand one’s own traits, feelings, and behaviors

To have a firm belief in an idea or a course of action is called _________________

_________________ is a quality that a person possesses that enables him/her to face danger, fear, or a change in circumstances with self-possession, confidence, and resolution

If you are able to make an effort to hear something, pay attention to it, and understand it, then you are showing an ability to ______________The ability to _________________ is to have the ability to contemplate previous actions. In other words, it is to be thoughtful

A _______________ person is someone who is eager to learn more.

To be ______________ is to be original, expressive and imaginative.


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